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Competition / France


609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

Nabil Ben Yadir  • Director of Animals

Interview: Nabil Ben Yadir • Director of Animals

"To tell this radical story, an equally radical form was needed"

A meeting with the Belgian filmmaker, who delivers with his fourth feature a film that plunges into the heart of the darkness of the human soul by probing a racist and homophobic crime  

20/10/2021 | Ghent 2021

Review: Animals

Review: Animals

Nabil Ben Yadir delivers a radical film gesture which scrutinises the final hours of a young man who’s the victim of a brutal homophobic crime, and the hours which follow his death  

15/10/2021 | Ghent 2021

Thierry de Peretti • Director of Undercover

Interview: Thierry de Peretti • Director of Undercover

“Cinema allows us to show the ambiguities of journalists’ working methods”

The French director spoke to Cineuropa about his competition film and revealed why you can learn a lot about the state from the way it deals with crime  

27/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Review: The Grandmother

Review: The Grandmother

The worlds of Paco Plaza and Carlos Vermut collide in a hair-raising film which encourages us to think about the fleeting nature of beauty, along with loneliness and the high price we pay for success  

24/09/2021 | San Sebastian 2021 | Competition

Claire Simon • Director of I Want to Talk About Duras

Interview: Claire Simon • Director of I Want to Talk About Duras

“For women, who have been oppressed for centuries, it’s very difficult to speak out about their oppression”

Cineuropa talks with the French director about the nature of love, society’s obssesion with fame, and the limits between fiction and documentary  

22/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Lucile Hadzihalilovic • Director of Earwig

Interview: Lucile Hadzihalilovic • Director of Earwig

“This film is in the head of a man who is lost”

The third feature by the French director is her first in English; its European premiere is taking place in competition at San Sebastián, where Cineuropa spoke to her  

22/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Review: Undercover

Review: Undercover

In his usual thrilling anti-spectacular style, Thierry de Peretti delves into the grey zones of the war against drugs, following in the wake of an inside man and an investigative journalist  

22/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Review: I Want to Talk about Duras

Review: I Want to Talk about Duras

Claire Simon unpicks the peculiar relationship between Marguerite Duras and Yann Andréa in an electrifying interpretative duel played beautifully by Swann Arlaud and Emmanuelle Devos  

21/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Laurent Cantet  • Director of Arthur Rambo

Interview: Laurent Cantet  • Director of Arthur Rambo

"I didn’t want the film to be a trial, but everyone has their own inner convictions"

The French filmmaker explores the violent era of social media through the story of a young and popular novelist who suffers a vertiginous fall from grace  

15/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Platform

Review: Arthur Rambo

Review: Arthur Rambo

With trademark subtlety, Laurent Cantet analyses the different sides to identity by broaching the subject of offensive outbursts on social media to tell the tale of a fall from grace  

13/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Platform

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